#Nat Pendleton

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Nat Pendleton, Carole Lombard, and Chester Morris in Jack Conway’s THE GAY BRIDE (1934)

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Wildest way to express intimacy I've ever seen in a 30s film

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Manhattan Melodrama (1934) W.S. Van Dyke

April 14th 2024

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Eily Malyon-Henry Travers-Lionel Barrymore-Una Merkel-Nat Pendleton "On borrowed time" 1939, de Harold S. Bucquet.

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Screenland magazine, January 1936

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From "The Icy Fingers of Jack Frost" in Tales of Suspense #45, September 1963. Stan Lee script, Jack Kirby (Iron Man), Steve Ditko (?), Don Heck (?) pencils, Don Heck inks, Stan Goldberg colors, Artie Simek letters. The linked GCD page notes "Happy Hogan is based on pro wrestler-turned-actor Nat Pendleton; Pepper Potts is based on actress Ann B. Davis." Ann B. Davis played housekeeper Alice in The Brady Bunch TV show (1969).

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Round 1, Match 35

Nat Pendleton vs Clarence Kolb

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Saturday, Dec. 31 THE THIN MAN Double Feature

8:00 p.m. THE THIN MAN (1934) A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

9:45 p.m. AFTER THE THIN MAN (1939) Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora's cousin of a murder charge.

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Sing and Like It

William A. Seiter’s SING AND LIKE IT (1934, Criterion Channel through month’s end) starts sluggishly. An argument scene between gangster Nat Pendleton and moll Pert Kelton doesn’t have the zing you’d expect from such expert players. In the middle of a safecracking heist, however, Pendleton hears amateur actress Zasu Pitts singing a horridly sentimental song, “Your Mother,” and the film and plot take off. Pitts was noted for her fluttery delivery, and she does it so well she can work countless changes on it, as the situation demands, and it’s always funny. She has to sing “Your Mother” three times, which would be a lot for such a bad song, but each time her delivery is different, reflecting the circumstances of each performance. Determined to make Pitts and the song a hit on Broadway, Pendleton strong arms a top producer into making her the star of the show he’s about to open. With Edward Everett Horton as the harried producer, the film becomes almost delirious. He was an ace at playing high-strung characters, which somehow makes his zingers about Pitts’ lack of talent even funnier. Joking is his only defense against the gangsters taking over his life. Pendleton has one of his henchmen create new jokes for the show and even figures out a way to get an audience on opening night. With the opening, the picture takes some pretty devastating shots at critics and audiences (the elder critic advises a younger one, “if every you have anything good to say about an actor or a playwright, wait ‘til he’s dead. Because you cannot possibly do any good…for a corpse.”). The film is a clear influence on Woody’ Allen’s BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (1994) and even has hints of THE PRODUCERS (1967). Ned Sparks is Pendleton’s second-in-command, with a delivery so dry he could make you laugh at a death notice. You can tell it’s a pre-Code film because Pendleton and Kelton are clearly living together while unmarried, and there are refences to Horton and his secretary’s both being gay.

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buck privates 1941 sentence mix

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Nat Pendleton (August 9, 1895 – October 12, 1967)

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THE BODY BEAUTIFUL !!!

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The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942) Joseph H. Lewis

September 30th 2024

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Films Watched in 2024: 93. The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942) - Dir. Joseph H. Lewis

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The Mad Doctor of Market Street

The Mad Doctor of Market Street – scientist Lionel Atwill fails to revive a subject in a suspended animation experiment, who dies. Then … Continue reading The Mad Doctor of Market Street